IUCN status: Near Threatened
EPBC Predator Threat Rating: A threat
IUCN claim: “Exotic predators (especially cats and foxes)… [have been] implicated as major threats to the species.”
Foxes hunt Julia Creek dunnarts (Kutt 2003).
No studies
There are no studies linking foxes to Julia Creek dunnart
populations.
Current submission (2023) Scant evidence that introduced predators cause extinctions.
EPBC. (2013) Threat Abatement Plan for Predation by the European Red Fox (2008). Five yearly review. Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Government of Australia (Appendix E: EPBC Act listed threatened species).
IUCN Red List. https://www.iucnredlist.org/ Accessed June 2023
Kutt, A.S., 2003. New records of the Julia Creek Dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi in central-north Queensland. Australian Zoologist, 32(2), pp.257-260.